Stephen Walker left a cell phone memory card with video of the girl at the Buck and Deer Hunting Club lease in Marion County, an FBI complaint said.

A “private citizen” found the memory card on the property in November and reported it to police after viewing several nude videos of the victim on it, the complaint said. Rowlett police discovered that the videos were made between October 2010 and May 2011.

Court records do not describe the relationship between Walker and the victim. Walker’s wife confirmed that the videos were made inside the couple’s home on Willowbrook Drive, according to the complaint.

Walker’s face is visible in one of the videos, the complaint said. In another video, a man is heard directing the child to do certain things.

Walker told police he took the videos with his cell phone, the complaint said. He said he took some of the videos at his previous home in Rowlett, according to the complaint.

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Authorities are investigating after a woman shot her Naval petty officer ex-boyfriend before turning the gun on herself in the Rowlett home they once shared, police say.

Amanda Todhunter, 29, and Brandon McClain, 34, were found dead Sunday with gunshot wounds to the head. The Dallas County Medical Examiner’s Office ruled Monday that Todhunter died of a self-inflicted wound. McClain’s death was ruled a homicide; he was shot once in the back and once in the head, police said.

Police believe the two died about 3 p.m. Saturday in the kitchen of a home in the 5600 block of Luna Drive. According to police interviews with family, Todhunter had a key and likely let herself in.

The couple had been living apart for about two weeks. McClain’s family last heard from him Saturday afternoon when he asked his mother for an extra bed because Todhunter had taken furniture from the house, police said.

Police have been called out to the home on Luna Drive twice before — once on a family violence call in February and last month for a welfare check.

McClain, a chief petty officer, was listed as active duty for the Navy, a spokesman said. Records show he enlisted in January 2001. He was currently working for the Navy Recruiting District Dallas recruiting in the local area for special operations, according to a spokesman.

McClain often posted on Facebook about running and going to the gym.

Todhunter, meanwhile, is listed on her LinkedIn page as a student at Eastfield College, a community college in Mesquite.

Police said the couple did not have children together, although both appear to be parents. McClain’s mother told police he had missed his son’s baseball game Saturday, and Todhunter has posted photos of her children on Facebook.

A neighbor said he saw Todhunter and her son loading a dresser into a van on Friday.

“The young man was struggling so I came over to help him,” said Bart Walter, who lives behind the home where the shooting happened. “She kept apologizing, but I told her she didn’t need to apologize, I was just being a neighbor.”

Neighbors said the couple had lived in the home for about half a year. They said the Rowlett neighborhood is typically tranquil, but it is also the same neighborhood where a notorious murder took place in the 1990s.

Darlie Routier, who is on death row, fatally stabbed her 5-year-old son, Damon, in 1996 in their Eagle Drive House, about a block from where the bodies were found Sunday. Routier was also charged with killing Damon’s 6-year-old brother, Devon, but was not tried in his death.

She said that an intruder killed the boys and stabbed her, but prosecutors said Routier was trying to rid herself of a financial burden.

Walter lived in the neighborhood during the 1996 case, too. “That’s people and society today,” he said. “It’s just unfortunate.”

The Rowlett resident was starting at a maximum statutory penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine after federal agents discovered he’d sold at least 135 firearms out of his Garland screen-printing shop over a 14-month period. Among the weapons sold: 12-gauge Winchester shotguns, .44-caliber Rugers and .22-calibers Walthers. It could have bee more than that though: Authorities say Burke’s records were “not particularly well kept.”

Burke made it easy for prosecutors, according to court records. He sold one pistol to an undercover Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agent without ever asking if he was a convicted felon. Matter of fact, say prosecutors, he “only glanced at” the agent’s Texas driver’s license. But at trial, Burke maintained his innocence: He said he was just selling guns from his private collection, which is legal. The jury, after some questions for the judge about the definition of “dealer,” disagreed.

As you’ll see in the video below, Burke told KXAS-Channel 5 he was shocked and disappointed by the verdict. He also said he’s just too old for proson.

“Basically, when I said, ‘I’m too old to go to jail,’ it means that I’m going to do right,” he told the NBC station. “I don’t want to go to jail in any purposes.” Continue reading →

A Rowlett man was sentenced Thursday to 40 years in prison after being convicted of robbing another man at the Days Inn hotel in McKinney, the Collin County District Attorney’s Office announced.

Lonnie Jack Lee, 35, was convicted of aggravated robbery after a jury trial that ended last week.

According to testimony, Lee was at the hotel with Summer Jones and Megan Whitney in the early hours of Jan. 1, 2012, to rob Ferris Short, who was staying at the hotel. Short had invited Jones to celebrate the New Year with him and use drugs, but he kicked her out when he caught her stealing money.

She returned about 45 minutes later with Lee and Whitney. When Short opened the door, Lee attacked him, repeatedly punching and kicking him in the face, according to testimony. The two women took his wallet, money and drugs. Short’s jaw was broken in two places, and he suffered permanent paralysis on the left side of his face.

During the punishment phase of the trial, jurors learned Lee had two prior robbery convictions. He was sentenced to five years in prison in 1997 for aggravated robbery and sentenced to prison for six years after a robbery in 2002.

Because of those convictions, prosecutors were able to elevate the punishment range from a minimum of five years to a minimum of 25 years. Lee will not be eligible for parole until he serves at least 20 years.

After a man and a woman kicked opened the door to a Rowlett home Sunday and forced their way inside, a gunman inside the home opened fire. Two men then ran away from the scene and police have been unable to find them since.

Police identified the two men as Sharod Williams and Lance Williams, both 27.

If you have any information on these men or their location, please contact Detective Waters at 972-412-6280 or the Rowlett Police Department at 972-412-6200 and select option 1.

Two people were shot and wounded Sunday afternoon after forcing their way into an acquaintance’s Rowlett home.

Police say man and a woman drove up to a home on the 9300 block of Shearer Street and kicked in the door. One witness said she heard the woman say “kill them all.” Inside, they got into an argument with two men, including a man in his 20s who lived there. Meanwhile, the man’s mother hid in a closet with young children.

Witnesses saw the man and woman who knocked down the door calmly walk outside. Then, a man came outside and fired at least five shots from just a few feet away.

The man was shot in the abdomen and was airlifted to Parkland Memorial Hospital. There was no word on his condition, but police say his injuries were serious. The woman was shot in the shoulder and has already been treated.

After the shooting, the two men from inside ran away. Police are still searching for them.

Police say there were claims of a robbery, but they’re still trying to sort through the details. They haven’t nailed down a motive yet, said Sgt. Dean Poos of the Rowlett Police Department.

“Obviously these people knew each other and there was some bad blood somewhere,” he said.

Vince Christensen, who lives across the street and saw the shooting, was still processing what had happened Sunday evening.

Rowlett police are searching for two men after a man and woman were shot and wounded Sunday afternoon, WFAA is reporting.

Police say the shooting occurred in the 9300 block of Shearer Street — near Lakeview Parkway and Dalrock Road. Police received initial calls about the incident around 3:15 p.m.

According to WFAA, a woman was shot in the shoulder and a man suffered multiple bullet wounds in the abdomen. Neighbors told investigators that they saw the victims coming out of the house and reporting they had just been robbed.

Rowlett Police Detective Cruz Hernandez said no stolen items linking the men to the Rowlett burglaries were found when they were arrested, but police think the suspects might be the burglars they’re looking for.

“We see too many similarities that we feel confident that those individuals remain very good suspects in our cases, although we’re not going to pursue criminal charges because we have no connection,” Hernandez said.

The suspect car in Rowlett was described as a four-door black Mercedes-Benz with a handicap license plate. Hernandez said the suspect car in the Rockwall arrests — a dark blue Cadillac sedan with a handicap plate — could easily be mistaken for a Mercedes.

Like the Rockwall burglaries, the Rowlett cases involved men who rang the bell or knocked on doors to check if people were home. If the home appeared empty, the men would kick the door open, snatch electronics and valuables and leave quickly.

Six burglaries in Rockwall and eight reported in Rowlett since around Aug. 23 match this MO, police said. The Rockwall burglaries were reported in the Meadowcreek and Windmill Ridge subdivisions. In Rowlett, most of the burglaries occurred on the east side of the Muddy Creek area, between Highway 66 and Interstate 30.

Rowlett police are advising residents to keep their doors closed and locked when strangers knock or ring, but to acknowledge their presence so the strangers know someone is home.
Rockwall and Rowlett police said they plan to maintain increased patrol in the affected neighborhoods.

Over the past two weeks, Rockwall police have received multiple reports of forced-entry burglaries south of Interstate 30, off Goliad Street. The burglars struck during the day, targeting houses that appeared to be unoccupied.

On Thursday, officers patrolling the affected area observed suspicious activity in the 1400 block of Lochspring Drive where they found the suspects in a vehicle matching descriptions given by witnesses.

Rockwall police are still completing the investigation.

Rowlett has experienced similar burglaries, but police released a different description of the suspect vehicle: a black four-door Mercedes with a handicap license plate.